by Nellie Andreeva • Mike Fleming Jr March 22, 2018 8:00am Byron Allen continues to expand his Entertainment Studios media holdings with the purchase of The Weather Channel basic cable TV network. Through his company Allen Media, Allen has acquired the Weather Group, parent company of The Weather Channel TV network and Local Now streaming service, from The Blackstone...

By: Waylon Jordan  - March 11, 2018 It has been years since Zak Bagans, host of television’s “Ghost Adventures”, first heard of a mysterious house in Gary, Indiana where a host of unexplained incidents had occurred. He would come to call it the “demon house“, and his new documentary...

by Patrick Hipes March 8, 2018 12:00pm After Louie, the debut feature film from artist and AIDS activist Vincent Gagliostro that stars Alan Cumming, has been acquired by Freestyle Digital Media. The drama will now bow theatrically March 30 in New York day-and-date with VOD. Cumming plays Sam, a New York artist...

by DAPHNE HOWLAND FEBRUARY 27, 2018   In the documentary “Hondros,” Greg Campbell draws upon decades’ worth of materials to help portray his friend and colleague Chris Hondros’s brilliance and humanity War-zone journalists are a stubborn, audacious lot, and photojournalist Chris Hondros proved especially prolific, covering the world’s major conflicts,...

by Peter Martin on Feb 26, 2018. The trailer for film noir crime drama Live or Die in La Honda, which you can watch below, looks moody and mysterious. That bodes well for its upcoming release. Here's the official synopsis: Live or Die in La Honda tells the story of Blake Baker,...

by Rama on Feb 22, 2018. Freestyle Digital Media, independent film distributer, unleashed this new trailer for HEARTBEATS From the creator of the iconic Step Up series and Save the Last Dance, DUANE ADLER, and with new music from JAY-Z, comes HEARTBEATS, about a young American college student (Krystal Ellsworth,...

by Harrison Jacobs  Feb. 18, 2018,  3:58 PM After 15 years covering major conflict zones, Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a mortar shell on April 20, 2011 while traveling with rebels in Libya. It was and still is an unmitigated tragedy. Hondros' photos from conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,...

by Indiewire Staff Feb 15, 2018 12:48 pm Friday, February 16: – Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital independent film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, has acquired the U.S. rights to the New Zealand road comedy, “Pork Pie.” The film will debut on VOD and will be available to...